Community:SummerOfCode12:Brainstorming

Mozilla community members - submit ideas here for 2012 Google Summer of Code projects with Mozilla.

Are you a students looking to apply to SoC with Mozilla? Project ideas formally approved by the Mozilla SoC admins are here. You can also submit your own ideas - you don't have to put an idea on this page and get it made official in order to propose it.

How To Write A Good Project Proposal

Before adding an proposal to this list, please consider the following:

• Be specific. It's hard to understand the impact of, or the size of, vague proposals.
• Consider size. The student has eight weeks to design, code, test and document the proposal. It needs to fill, but not overfill, that time.
• Do your research. Support the idea with well-researched links.
• Don't morph other people's ideas. If you have a related idea, place it next to the existing one, or add a comment.
• Insert only your own name into the Mentor column, and then only if you are willing to take on the responsibility. If you think the SoC admins won't know who you are, leave contact details.
• Check back regularly. The administrators may have questions about your idea that you will need to answer.
• Know when to give up. If you've added the same idea for the last three years and it hasn't made it to the official page, perhaps you can predict what will happen this time.

Suggestion List

Here are the ideas lists from previous years.

Proposals can be in almost any part of the Mozilla project - don't be fooled by the "Code" in the title. If there is no category for your part of Mozilla, add one!

Mozilla Platform (Gecko)

Title	Details - with links as appropriate	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments
				} Firefox Title Details - with links as appropriate Reporter Mentor(s) Comments } Firefox Mobile Title Details - with links as appropriate Reporter Mentor(s) Comments } Boot2Gecko Title Details - with links as appropriate Reporter Mentor(s) Comments } Calendar Title Details - with links as appropriate Reporter Mentor(s) Comments Improve Invitation support While Lightning supports invitations, there are still some features that are not supported yet and others that are not quite as stable. Possible goals for this project include improving the UI to make sure users are not confused and implementing/adapting code to support previously unsupported features of invitations like delegations or counters. Lightning relies on the itip/imip standard for invitations, which is also used by most other calendaring clients and servers, so an interested student should look into these. Related bugs are bug 420516, bug 426532, bug 445982, bug 538043, bug 720263, bug 624332, bug 433848. This is not the final list of bugs to be fixed, just to give you an idea of what can be done here. Fallen ludovic? OS Integration Lightning should improve its integration into the Operating system, most importantly on Windows. If you've ever wanted to doubleclick on an event to open it in Lightning, this project is for you. Note this might be a bit more tricky than it intially sounds, but you will have the chance to contribute to multiple projects, as some parts of this project could possibly be better solved within Thunderbird or even the Mozilla Platform. To get prepared, see the list of OS Integration bugs, and especially bug 352566. Fallen Fallen+someone else? Thunderbird Title Details - with links as appropriate Reporter Mentor(s) Comments } SeaMonkey Title Details - with links as appropriate Reporter Mentor(s) Comments } Camino Title Details - with links as appropriate Reporter Mentor(s) Comments } NSS (Network Security Services) Title Details - with links as appropriate Reporter Mentor(s) Comments } Bugzilla Title Details - with links as appropriate Reporter Mentor(s) Comments } Firefox Support (SUMO) Title Details - with links as appropriate Reporter Mentor(s) Comments } QA Title Details - with links as appropriate Reporter Mentor(s) Comments } Documentation Title Details - with links as appropriate Reporter Mentor(s) Comments } Mozilla IT and Infrastructure Title Details - with links as appropriate Reporter Mentor(s) Comments } Open Web Apps Title Details - with links as appropriate Reporter Mentor(s) Comments } BrowserID Title Details - with links as appropriate Reporter Mentor(s) Comments } Sync Title Details - with links as appropriate Reporter Mentor(s) Comments } Developer Tools Title Details - with links as appropriate Reporter Mentor(s) Comments } Foundation Title Details - with links as appropriate Reporter Mentor(s) Comments } InstantBird Title Details - with links as appropriate Reporter Mentor(s) Comments }